Hahn’s way of staging the bags in his pictures is a reference to the scientific documentation of animal and plant species against a white background. Thereby Hahn takes an approach that is, in a metaphorical sense, archaeological. Like a naturalist, he explores the urban environment and finds eloquent evidence of the forces at work within it. Under the influences of the environment, the material experiences a “potential explosion of every form”, reflecting “the dynamics of the living”, as the French philosopher Catherine Malabou has aptly put it in her accompanying text for the book to Hahn’s photo series (Draussen Dehors Outside, published by Vexer Verlag in 2015).

Articel/Review

• Maximilian Sippenauer: Isolation Berlin. In: Spex, Mar./Apr. 2018, No. 379.
• Phillip Meene: Schönheit des Weggeworfenen. In: strassenfeger, Mar. 2018.